On Wednesday, September 5, lawmakers from across the European Union voted in Strasbourg to invoke Article 7 of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty against the government of Hungary.
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On the March 14, Angela Merkel was sworn in as German chancellor for the fourth time, but there is an increasing dissatisfaction among Germans concerning her leadership.
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As a NATO member nation, Turkey has supported U.S. global security measures in the past, such as hosting U.S. military capabilities during the Cold War. While the Turkish policy with the Kurds has been long standing, the U.S. decision to use them as a security device is relatively recent.
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Turkey considers the Kurdish forces to be a terrorist organization, and is posing its operations primarily against the Kurdish forces in the area as counter-terrorism, although US authorities have announced intentions to create a border security force of 30,000 with the Kurdish forces.
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In January 2017, Iran’s domestic policy on the censorship of pornography affected the rest of the world. The Telecommunication Company of Iran, often called “telecom,” misdirected traffic from 256 porn sites to fake addresses resulting in a blank page.
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International leaders condemned the violence and provided some aid for the affected refugees, but there remains no solid resolution to the issue, and the future of over a million Rohingya refugees remains uncertain.
Read moreRussian military forces began engaging in joint military exercises with Belarus causing NATO to increase its forces along the Russian borders multiple times.
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The effects of climate change are now being felt in the United States, Central America, and throughout the globe in the form of storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.
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